Burning of dry vegetation

Burning of dry vegetation

Burning dry vegetation

Every year, with the onset of autumn, we face the problem of autumn dry vegetation fires and an increase in the number of fires caused by burning garbage on plots. As a result of such burning, not only roadsides, but sometimes entire settlements are enveloped in acrid smoke.

Autumn fires, as recent years have shown, have become a powerful destructive factor for the environment. When dry grass is burned, the root system of plants is disturbed, the soil and vegetation become impoverished due to high temperatures, the fertile layer is destroyed, beneficial shoots, insects, and animals die. The smoke released during the burning of dry grass and garbage is very toxic, harmful to human health, and causes irreparable damage to the environment. Such arsons are especially dangerous in areas contaminated with radionuclides, as radioactive "dirt" rises and spreads for many kilometers as a result.
Often, the fire spreads to forest areas and can reach threatening proportions, turning into peat and forest fires. Very often, residential buildings, outbuildings, barns with livestock catch fire from burning grass, people suffer burns, and sometimes even die. It is worth recalling the spring of 2019, when 6 people died in the country as a result of burning dry vegetation.
All cases are trivial and similar to each other. Due to their carelessness, people lighting a fire think that they can cope with the fire on their own. It is not uncommon for a small fire, which the owner, as it seemed to him, lit at a safe distance from the house, to develop to such a size by a gust of wind that houses and residential buildings burn down.
Remember that burning dry vegetation, or failing to take measures to localize fires on land plots owned, used, or possessed, entails administrative responsibility.
Burning dry vegetation, grass on the root, as well as stubble and post-harvest residues in the fields, or failure to take measures to eliminate fires on land plots, entails a fine of ten to thirty basic units.
Dear citizens!
Observe fire safety rules. Remember that a discarded burning match, an unextinguished fire, a forgotten glass bottle are enough to cause a fire. Do not allow children to play with matches, do not commit arson of dry vegetation.
If you discover a fire, you must report it to the Ministry of Emergency Situations duty service by calling "101". Take measures to extinguish it.
Before striking a match and setting fire to a bunch of dry grass and leaves, think about the irreparable damage you are causing to nature with your actions.
Let's save the home we live in together!

Burning of dry vegetation